I agree with SumProVita that it is sin. For all our 'progress' and amazing technology, the fundamental problems with people still exist. We are broken, fallen people. all of us and there is no hope of repair with in ourselfs. C.S. Lewis summed up Christmas like this "The son of God became a man so that men could become the sons of God."

This is a special, significant Christmas. What I think you are seeing is Satan throwing a fit because his time is short. Jesus is comming back and sooner than many of us think. If you haven't done it yet, give Him your heart. Let Him fix it like no one else can.

My your Christmas be exeedingly merry and overflowing with the love of Christ.

I believe that there has not been any change in the violent crime / shooting rate in the US recently. What has changed is that the gun-grabbers in Washington and the media smell blood in the water, so they are going to over-hype every negative story involving a gun in order to play on peoples’ emotions and get a gun ban through. Similarly, they will underreport any story involving gun being used for valid self-defense purposes.

Alcohol complicating ‘family matters’/broken-up families and the holidays can make things painful, out-of-work with no money available to pay property taxes/a ‘tax auction’ looming down the road, a feeling of ultimate and enveloping despair ...

Pick one, they all work equally well.

86 posted on 12/24/2012 9:45:39 AM PST by _Jim
(Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)